Aston Martin boss Mike Krack wants to see his team improve and start getting points to climb from their lowly position in the standings.
In the current Constructors’ standings after 13 races, Aston Martin is in the ninth position on 20 points, seven back from AlphaTauri.
After last year’s rebranding from Racing Point to Aston Martin, the 2022 campaign has been disappointing, with driver Sebastian Vettel on 16 points while Lance Stroll has four points with nine races remaining.
Aston Martin’s 2022 F1 car, the AMR22
Still focused on 2022
In an interview with GPFans, Krack was asked whether they had taken their eye off the current season and were instead switching their focus to the 2023 campaign, he replied: “No. I think it would be too easy to write the car off or to write this season off, but I think that would be an excuse somehow – ‘We’re focusing now on the new one’ – and I think that would be not correct.
“Especially if we were to have a substantial rule change [coming] as we have had [for this year], then it’s something that you could discuss. But now the rules are not changing dramatically.”
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The Aston Martin team have been constantly adding upgrades to their car, and Krack is treating things as a learning curve as they tweak and make the AMR22 as competitive as possible.
“Okay, there is a discussion about raising the floor edges and these kinds of things for the TD 39, for the porpoising TD,” added Krack.
“But let’s say the regulations stay largely the same. I think what you learned this year, you can carry [over]. If we can afford it, I would like to develop the car until the last race.
“But obviously, you must also start with a new one. You cannot go flat out on this one and completely neglect the other one. At the moment, it is a parallel path. We have one group working on the new car, one group working on the current car. We will not stop now because we cannot finish like we are now.”
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